The AirPods Pro “could have been easily made repairable with minimal effort.”

  • avapa@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, part of the reason cars back then were so serviceable was because they broke down all the time. A modern car with regular servicing can last very long mechanically. The amount of electronic creature comforts, safety devices etc. are often what drives up repair costs and lead to some cars becoming uneconomical to repair. Cracked windshield? That’ll be 1000 bucks because the rain sensor for your automatic wipers will have to be recalibrated. Dead headlight? $2000 because we can’t replace individual LEDs, have to take the front of the car of to replace the whole headlight assembly and calibrate the adaptive front lighting system so that it follows road curvature again.

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      1 year ago

      Which leads to insurance companies writing off vehicles long before their time due to cost alone, and vehicles still only last 100k miles.

      Yeah, they’re more reliable than ever, but we’re still scrapping them after the same amount of use due to cost alone.

      I’m so bitter about my last car. It probably had 200k left in it but the cunts were too cheap to fix it so in scrap it goes! Economy of waste.